Yay time for the second half of the story! Thank you to everyone who reads my stuff! 3

Also quick heads up, I haven't seen most of the anime, so this is going off of what I know. So sorry if it isn't completely accurate.

Delia had just got home for the store. She opened the door and closed it behind her. She was just about to lock the door when she heard a familiar voice she hadn't heard in years, "You still hide the spare key under the welcome mat? Honestly I'm surprised you haven't been robbed." She turned around and dropped her bags seeing Giovanni sitting in the living room.

"Mom!" exclaimed Ash who was handcuffed to a chair. She reached for her Pokémon but so did Giovanni.

"I wouldn't, you know I'm the better fighter out of the two us." She lowered her hand and he smiled. "Not even a hello for your husband?" Giovanni asked. Delia just stared blankly.

"Gio-Giovanni?" she asked shocked.

"Mom please tell me he's lying?" Ash blurted.

"About what?" she asked nervously.

"That he's my dad, but he's not right?" Ash's eyes were wide and wild.

"Or you can tell him the truth," shrugged Giovanni. "Tell him your real last name, who his real dad is, and all the secrets you didn't tell him after I left."

With a quiver in her voice she said, "Ash… He is your father. He is my husband."

Ash's jaw hung open. "You're…. You're lying!" He said wide eyed and stunned.

"I wish I was…." Delia answered a few tears slipping down her cheeks. Ash just shook his head in disbelief, unable to except that it was the truth but he had to.

"Finally! He believes the truth!" Giovanni exclaimed standing up.

Delia turned on Giovanni. "What are you doing here!?"

"I want my family back. You don't know how much I've missed you two."

"Well frankly, I don't care," Delia snapped. She marched right over and smacked him across the face.

Persian hissed, and stood up. Giovanni raised his hand, calling off his Pokémon. "I probably deserved that," he winced.

"You better believe you deserved it! You left me and my seven mouth old son! To go and be a crime boss!" She glared bitterly at him, angry tears now sliding down her cheek.

"But I've come back to bring you two back with me."

"Well we're not going," Delia said firmly standing between him and Ash.

"Yeah! We're not coming with you!" Ash exclaimed struggling against his bounds, "At least not without a fight!"

"I wasn't expecting anything less," Giovanni said simply. "That's why I brought back up." He whistled and at least a dozen grunts came in. Two grabbing Delia by her arms and two untying Ash and grabbing him.

"Get your hands off me!" Delia exclaimed.

"Let! Us! GO!" Ash yelled struggling and fighting. They had to hold him off the ground to keep him from escaping.

"Now," said Giovanni, "we're all heading home. Together, like a family should be." He told his grunts to take them to them limo. Delia and Ash struggled the whole the whole way to the vehicle. Ash shouted and fought the whole car ride. When they arrived Giovanni grabbed Delia arm and began to pull her away. "My wife and have a lot to talk about, take Ash to his room."

Ash struggled and shouted after them as he watched them go off in one direction while he was pulled the other way. Giovanni took Delia to his office locking the door. "Why did you do this?" Delia asked.

"I told you I want my family back."

"Yeah well, maybe I don't want you back."

"That's a lie. I know you too well to believe that."

Delia hmphed and turned away. "You lied to me Gio. You lied to me while we were dating, when we got married, even after we had Ash. Then I found out, but you told me you were going to change everything. That you were going to fix Team Rocket, but that was a lie too."

"Team Rocket has changed under my leadership! You know what it was like when my mother was in charge."

"But it hasn't changed like you said it would! You said you would change it to where it will make the world a better place! It just seems like you want to take it over."

"It will be a better place when I am in charge of it.

"Unbelievable," she mumbled. "You realize that this team of yours is evil right?" Giovanni didn't answer. "Team Rocket has hurt thousands of people and-"

"They haven't hurt you or Ash. That's all that is important about who gets hurt in this process. You two are all I have and care about."

"It doesn't seem like you care about us anymore."

"It doesn't, does it?" he asked. He walked over to his desk and turn around a picture frame. It was a picture of Delia just after Ash had been born holding him. "This picture has been the most valuable thing I've had in my office, and trust me, I've had riches upon riches in here." Delia tried to keep her scowl.

Giovanni tried to change the subject. "So… do you still see the Professor often?" She nodded. "I'm glad. You were so upset after your mother passed away."

"He was like the dad I always wanted."

"I know."

"No kid should have to grow up without a dad." She turned to him angry tears in her eyes, "AND YOU MADE ASH GROW UP WITHOUT A DAD!"

"I'M SORRY BUT WHEN MY MOM PASSED AWAY I HAD TO LEAVE!"

"No you didn't. You could have stayed, we could have been a family but you choose your job over us. Did you ever even actually care about me, or Ash?"

"I care about you two more than I care about my life."

"I doubt it."

"The whole reason I lied to you was because I was afraid of losing you two. I thought you couldn't love me if you knew anything about my job. Then when you got really sick, my mother thought you'd be better off staying here at the mansion with our doctors to take care of you… and I couldn't hide the truth anymore." For a split second Delia saw the man she knew so many years go standing in front of her.

"I always knew something was up. You would often come home late at night. You would lock the door of our room when you would read anything relating to your work. You avoided questions about it like the plague, and when I asked you where your business trip was you would just say somewhere. I started to think you were cheating on me."

"I would never do that."

"I know. I figured that out when I saw you after one of your "night shifts" in the light. You looked like you had been in a fight with Yveltal." She looked Giovanni in the eyes, "I was always afraid of the nights you came home covered in blood, but you know when I was most scared? The nights when you came home covered in someone else's blood."

Giovanni couldn't meet her gaze. "I'm sorry I scared so you much."

"I was scared my husband was a monster. Which you turned out to be."

"Oh really now?" he said, his turn to look her in the eyes, "Would a monster on nights he had to be away hire people to watch the house and keep you safe? Would a monster protect you and Ash from things that could very well have ruined your lives if you or anyone else knew? If I was a monster would I have been the shoulder you cried on as a teen or the man who stood by you as you went through a messy and painful labor? Would I have cared for you when became super sick when Ash was only a few weeks old? Would I have comforted him as he cried, even though I was about to bleed out from a stab wound on my leg, all because I didn't want to wake you and because I couldn't bear to hear his pitiful cries?" Delia couldn't look at him. He sighed. "I regret ever calling my mother that night."

"You were scared."

"Of course I was scared! You had the worst fever I had ever seen or heard of. I didn't know what else to do."

"I know."

"You had every chance though to tell Ash who I was. Make him believe I was a monster, but you didn't. Why?"

"I wanted him to love you and not think that he was just another link in the world's worst chain. I wanted him to have a life. I wanted him to know the man I loved not the man who the world made you."

Giovanni smiled at her. Then a question he had asked himself millions of times left his mouth, "Why did you stop answering my letters?"

"I did for a while. I read every one of them a hundred times and would immediately write you back after reading them. Sometimes I would even read your letters to Ash. Then I found out you were lying again." Delia turned her back to him.

"What did you do with them?"

"I burned them."

"YOU WHAT?" Giovanni exclaimed hurt.

"You heard me Gio. I was tired of lies." He was actually really hurt.

"What about the money I sent you?"

"Donated it to people hurt and places robbed by Team Rocket."

"Clever," he murmured. "I promise I'll never lie to you again."

"I doubt it."

"I'm telling the truth. No more lies, no more us being apart. Just us being a family again."

"If you wanted that you would change. You would stop all your plans and become the good man I know you are."

"I can't."

"Why?! Are you afraid or do you just not want to?!"

"YES!" Giovanni said angry. "The world would never let ME have a normal life, anyways this is too much fun."

Delia glared at him, "I'm going to my room." She walked over to the door and unlocked it. Two large grunts stepped in. "No no. I can walk myself. That room I stayed in back when I was recovering is still a guestroom right?" she asked as she left.

Over with Ash he had been locked in his room for long time and was not in a good mood. He had been trying to break out. He slammed into the door for about the hundredth time. "YOU CAN'T KEEP US HERE! I'M ASH KETCHUM, NOT ROCKETTO! AND AS A KETCHUM I REFUSE TO GIVE UP!" He fell down exhausted.

"Pika Pi?' asked Pikachu, who had a power limiting collar on.

"I'm fine buddy. Just tired and sore." Ash said hoarsely. He had been yelling and trying to escape for the last two hours. "I'll just take a short break," he said plopping down on the bed. He soon fell into a restless sleep.

He woke up hearing the door unlock. He sat up and saw his mom walk in. "Mom!" he said running over to her.

"Hey baby." She hugged him. "It's time for breakfast."

"I'm not hungry."

"Who are you and what have you done with my son?" she joked. Ash just scowled. "Look I know this whole thing is…. not ideal but your dad just wants us to be a family again. He's going about it the wrong way but this job has messed up his mind."

"That's no excuse!"

"I know, but right now it's better just to a long with it till we can figure out how to get out of here."

"Why are you just going along with this?" Ash pulled away from his mom. "Why do keep pretending he cares. All he cares about is being a villain, and money, and taking over the world."

"I know it doesn't seem like it, but he does care. I used to have shoe boxes full of letters that prove he cares." Ash still looked upset. He was mad at his dad and himself. He was mad at himself for believing his dad was a good man and mad that he was his son. She took her son's face in her hand. "We just have to be strong right now, maybe he might come to his senses and let us go, or maybe we'll find a way out. Now come on." Ash and her left a room and went to a big dining room.

They sat down and Giovanni walked in. "Now this is how it should be! Us all together." Delia shrugged frowning and Ash wasn't talking to him. Giovanni sighed. "Won't you at least look at me?" he asked Ash. Ash just hmphed and stuffed a bite of pancake into his mouth. Giovanni just shook his head. "I was thinking, how would you like your very own personal tutor?"

"I had a teacher. Back at the Pokémon school! Who mIGHT BE DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU!" Ash said raising his voice. "I don't know what happened to anyone! I just want to go back there and be with my friends. Not with you, you, YOU MONSTER!"

"Ashton you do not raise your voice at me!"

"Watch me!" Ash said standing up.

"Ash sit down," Giovanni ordered. Ash ignored him. Ash glared at him, while Giovanni stared sternly at him.

Suddenly they heard a giant BOOM outside. All three of them ran to an open window. It was Ash's friends. All of them! Misty, Brock, Tracie, May, Max, Dawn, Iris, Cilan, Clement, Bonnie, Serena, Lana, Mallow, Sophocles, Lilly, Kiawe and…. PROFESSOR KUKUI!

You see after the attack they had gone back to the school and found the professor bleeding from the head. They bandaged him up and called all of Ash's other friends to see if they had any idea why they might have kidnapped Ash. They all had no clue. Then when Kukui came to he said the best place to start to find out why and to find Ash is to go to his old home with his mom. Mallow decide to let everyone else know their plan. Everyone wanted to help, so they all decide to meet up in Kanto, but when they got there Delia was nowhere to be found. They all were getting really concerned. Then Max got the idea that she got kidnapped too, and they were probably at Team Rocket's HQ. Now they were here to save their friend.

"GUYS UP HERE!" Ash yelled waving.

"ASH!" yelled Bonnie excited. Everyone glanced up from their battles excitedly.

"Don't worry Ash, we'll get you out!" called Kukui.

"Rooms! Now!" ordered Giovanni, pushing them away from the window.

"We have to get in there!" Misty yelled to the rest.

"We'll hold them off," said Cilan. With that Misty, Brock, Serena, Kiawe, and the Professor went into the mansion. Misty and Kiawe fought of any attackers while Brock, Serena, and Kukui tried different doors.

"Hey this one's locked!" said Brock.

"Get down!" yelled Kiawe to whoever was inside. With Sylveon's moon blast and Charazard's flame thrower they blasted the door open. Delia peaked over the edge of the bed she was hiding behind.

"Mrs. Ketchum are you okay?" asked Serena.

"I'm okay, there's a lot I have to explain though, but right now we got to get out of here. Come on, Ash is this way."

They ran through the halls, battling grunts. It didn't take his friend long to realize where they were going. They could hear him yelling and pounding on the door from two halls down. They blasted his door open and Ash and Pikachu ran out. "Professor Kukui!" Ash yelled, running to him.

"What are we chopped Magicarp?" Misty whispered.

"Hush Misty," scolded Brock.

"I thought something bad had happened to you." Ash was visibly shaken from seeing the man he looked up to so much look like he was dead.

"I'm alright Ash. I'm just glad we found you guys." Ash embraced his mentor.

"You guys came too!" Ash said hugging his friends, making Serena blush in the process.

"Of course we all came," said Kiawe.

"We may not always act like it, but we do care for you," said Misty.

As the made their way out, some familiar foes blocked their way. "Oh not you guys," moaned Misty.

"Well when you mess with our boss you should have known to prepare for trouble!" said Jessie.

"And make it double!" added James.

"To protect the world from devastation!"

"And to unite all people with in our nation!"

"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"

"And extend our reach to the stars above!"

"Jessie!"

"James!"

"Team Rocket blast off at the speed of me!"

"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"

"Meowth that's right!"

"Wobuffet!"

"Hey you went back to the old one," smiled Ash.

"Eh if ain't broke don't fix it," shrugged Meowth.

"Enough with talk," barked Jessie, "We're not letting you two go anywhere."

"Ash, we'll handle these guys," said Brock. Ash nodded, and they ran off, while Brock, Misty, and Kiawe covered them.

"We'll see you out there!" called Misty. As they ran they met another road block. Giovanni himself.

"You're not taking them," Giovanni stated bitterly to the Professor.

"You guys get my mom out of here. I'll distract him," Ash whispered. They nodded. "Leave us alone Giovanni!" The group snuck out of the room.

"Is that anyway to talk to your father?" Giovanni smirked.

"You're no dad to me!" Ash spat, "Go Pikachu!"

"Alright if you want to go about it that way fine." Giovanni flinched though at his statement. "Go Persian."

"Alright buddy, Iron Tail!"

"Use Shadow Claw!"

It was the fight like none other that Ash had fought, because this time everything in Ash's universe was hanging on the outcome. Ash fought with all his heart, but Pikachu was starting lose. "Alright buddy it's now or never. This is the move that has to count or we're sunk! No pressor."

"Pikachu."

Ash knew that if they used the wrong move it was game over and they'd never have a chance like this again to escape. "At least I know my mom and friends will make it out okay," he thought. Just then he noticed something appear on his Z ring. He grinned. "Alright I'm done playing around." Ash began the moves, "GIGAVOLT HAVOCK!" The move went spiraling towards Persian. Giovanni and Persian jumped out of the way. The move went through the wall, but Ash didn't care, it gave him his chance to get out of there.

Ash ran. He ran like he had never ran before. He got out of the building but Giovanni and what looked like all Team Rocket followed. "After him!" ordered Jessie.

"No," said Giovanni, "let him go. If we capture him again here, his friends will know exactly where he is. We can't risk that again." He turned to Jessie, James and Meowth. "You three." They jumped and stood up straight. "You're getting a promotion."

"Yes!" they cheered excited.

"Your new job is to get son back to me safe and sound."

"So we're still on pest duty," Jessie said dejected. Giovanni glared at them.

"We mean this our dream job, we'll do our job as if the whole universe depended on it!" James said quickly.

"Good," said Giovanni.

"But boss, I have just one question," said Meowth, "why don't we just catch your wife first?"

"Ha, Delia would figure out a different way to escape each week, but if we had Ash she'd stay. We have to be smart about this."

Over with Ash he ran off the property. He went to pass the corner of the high wall that surrounded the humungous property, when a hand reached out and grabbed him covering his mouth. He went to fight but realized it was just Tracie. "Phew, you're okay," said Brock.

"Yeah, how about you guys?"

"Never felt better," laughed Iris. Clement began to fill everyone in on what had happened when they rushed in into the mansion. Ash didn't care for once about an epic battle. He sunk down leaning against the wall, trying to collect his thought and catch his breath. Then he did something he had been fighting since this whole mess began. He burst into tears.

"Ash, what's wrong?" Mallow asked dropping down to one knee beside him.

"EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING IS WRONG! MY LIFE HAS JUST TURNED OUT TO BE PART OF MY ENEMIES LIFE!" Everyone was in stunned silence.

"Hey," Kukui said softly, "if you want we'll let you be with your mom for a while or if you want we can leave you alone."

"No, don't leave me alone." Ash tear streaked face had the saddest expression anyone could have. It was the look of someone whose world just broke. Lana and Dawn couldn't look in his eyes or they'd start crying too. "I'm not who any of you thought I was. I'm not even who I thought I was." They all looked at him concerned. "I'm not Ash Ketchum, I'm Ash Rocketto."

"WHAT!" exclaimed a shocked Misty.

"Oh Ash," Serena said hugging him.

"You mean he's your dad?" asked Max. Ash nodded. He felt numb, he couldn't even feel his tear that were still falling heavily down his cheeks.

"I married Gio before I knew this. I didn't marry this crime boss, I married the man that is hidden. The man I don't know if I'll ever see again." Delia looked ready to cry herself. May put a comforting arm around her shoulders.

"I don't care what ever kind of man he was, he will never be my dad. He may be my father, but he will never ever be my dad." Ash shoulders quaked as he tried to keep from sobbing. "I guess I am still just a kid Iris, because I thought dads were perfect people, or at least, good people."

"Hey, you're not a kid for wanting a good dad," Iris said comforting him. She helped him to his feet and gave him a small hug.

"Let's get out of," said Sophocles.

"Yeah," agreed Ash, "Oh and mom, you might want to hide that key in a different spot."

WOW that took forever to write. I loved this story though. I actually teared up little in some places.

I wanted to give a quick shout out to my friend Sun and Moon Lilly 2256, thanks for being so interested in my story!

Okay, I'm willing to write more stories about this if you guys want.

Any a ways, I'm going to go post this. Thank you my lovely readers!